A few brief, helpful conversations
Rebecca Hayes: Rebecca is the person I've been in contact with about the debating society. I went to finalise a few things with her the friday before modelling week started. We covered advertising, which I need to start designing, and room booking before going onto a few other things. She suggested targeting other societies to begin with while deciding my topics such as the women's society, socialists, anti-war etc to pull in members. She also said that she saw my society as the umbrella for all the others. So no pressure there.
Miriam: Miriam is looking at visions of the future for her project and has always expressed an interest in using the debating society as a platform for this which is something I'd be really interested in. As it would have to involve some kind of 'motion' as in "This House would..." which I'm not sure how useful it would be for her, we also discussed the idea of running some kind of workshop with students that encouraged discussion and debate about visions of the future. It would mean that we both likely get something very useful, with it serving as another platform for experimentation for me. I was also considering whether I could team up with other people to run it, so it works as a series of workshops on various subjects.
Alex: Talking to my brother about this project lead me onto Asche, who performed experiments to do with obdience which I'm currently reading about in social psychology textbook. It has lead me onto a few other experiments which I'm currently starting to delve into.
Josh: I found out that one of my old school friends is actually the President of the UCL Debate Society, who's website I've been stalking for a few months but never realised it was him. Hopefully he'll be a great help in setting up the society and have some good tips for running it, topic selection etc.
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